Sarmizegetusa-luptătorii

[cmacq]

What is the early connection between the Romans and the Sarmizegetusa-luptătorii?

[an_do_89]

If you could explain better at what are you refering?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Hilarious! :clown:

Googling Sarmizegetusa-luptătorii returns nothing but this thread. :computer:
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[cmacq]

Almost invented it myself, yet...

Is there some kind of connection between the primal-Roman military wolf-cult and the later Romanian luptătorii?


Mouzafphaerre, Google Sarmizegetusa wolf/wolf-warrior?

[Hooahguy]

well, considering some of dont know what the luptătorii are.....

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Mouzafphaerre, Google Sarmizegetusa wolf/wolf-warrior?
Terrifying. :skull:
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[MoROmeTe]

There was a Roman military wolf cult? Did not know about that...

Sarmisegetuza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmisegetuza) is the capital of the Getai and they carried a wolf-like battle standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_Draco).

But I really don't know of any large scale wolf worshiping in Dacia. So I don't see a connection. Maybe it was the fact that the draco standard was latter adopted by the Roman cavalry (quoting wiki here, so the info may be incorrect). Maybe a an EB Getai member can shed more light on your question...

[cmacq]

Is luptătorii a Romanian word for soldier? Just asking.

[Redmeth]

Is luptătorii a Romanian word for soldier? Just asking.

It means "the fighters" but I don't think it's an ancient word... luptător = fighter.

[cmacq]

Right, its in current use, but why does it include the root word for wolf?

[MoROmeTe]

I do not know the exact genesis for the word yet I doubt it has any real connection to "wolf" in any fashion... The online dictionaries say it comes from the latin "lucta/luctare"...

[an_do_89]

What i know is: the Dacians get theyr name from a word " daca " , meaning a short curbed sword , specific weapon to geto-dacians only that this word isn't found in texts or inscriptions . In latin texts the weapon specific to geto-dacians is called " sica ". After this being told , I.H.Crisan(historian) says there is a better aproach between the name of dacians and the indo-european word "dhaukos", which means wolf.


Another thing : after Strabon dacians were named "daoi" and a tradition consemnated by Hesychios informes us that daos was the frigian name for wolf.:book:

[cmacq]

That is sounding somewhat interesting.

[russia almighty]

Has there been any studies into why amongst all the indo group's everyone seemed to have wolf cult's and some sort of berserker like fanatic ?

[cmacq]

Good question. I see you picked up on why I started this thread?